How Do You Balance Family Stability with Resilience Over the Generations?

This article focuses on the history of an Afro-descendant family over its seven generations in one region of Minas Gerais. Although it is notoriously difficult to trace families founded by slaves, this one is an exception: it has proved possible to trace this family over a century and a half, and with a remarkable level of detail, because its members mostly stayed in one place. The implications of their permanence go beyond mere genealogy or family reconstitution to challenge long-standing historiographical perspectives. Over the years many scholars have agreed that Brazilian colonial and early imperial society was characterized by the near-constant movement of all segments of the population. New frontiers opened by agriculture, ranching, and mining attracted some members of the elite, but also beckoned the less favored with new opportunities. This incessant movement has even been touted as an impediment to the advancement of family history in Brazil.

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MARRIAGE AND DIVORCE COUNSELLING STRATEGIES IN BORNO STATE, NIGERIA

Sokoto Educational Review ◽

10.35386/ser.v15i2.170 ◽

2014 ◽

Vol 15 (2) ◽

pp. 63-68

Author(s):

Ibrahim T. Bokko

Keyword(s):

Crisis Intervention ◽

Cognitive Restructuring ◽

Marital Stability ◽

Intervention Strategies ◽

Family Stability ◽

Basic Principles ◽

Marriage And Divorce ◽

Ecological Equilibrium ◽

Harmony Restoration

This paper discussed marriage and divorce counselling strategies. The objective of which is to demonstrate how counselling can maintain marital stability and avoid, minimize and manage the divorce and post-divorce crisis among couples. Marriage is a ‘give and take’ relationship which should be ‘till death do us apart’ affair. Some basic principles of marriage are approval of the couples, payment of bride prize and religious rites, and possible problems of divorce among couples include psychological, social and economic, and causes of divorce are poverty, promiscuity, poor feeding and infertility to mention but a few have been enumerated. Family Ecological Equilibrium Interaction, Family Cognitive Restructuring, Family Psychosocial Harmony Restoration and Group Crisis Intervention strategies were proposed as counselling strategies to increase family stability and mitigate divorce among couples.

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